1870-S dollar tops sale

An 1870-S Seated Liberty dollar sold for $705,698 in Bowers and Merena Auctions? Baltimore sale.

The dollar was graded VF-25 by Professional Coin Grading Service and was described as the Farouk-Schultz specimen. According to Steve Deeds, president of B&M, only nine 1870-S dollars have been sold at auction and three more are rumored to exist.

Also crossing the block in the Feb. 28-March 1 sale was a 1794 half dime, which realized $232,501. It was graded MS-67 by Numismatic Guaranty Corp.

The 3,220-lot B&M sale, official auction of the Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention, had total prices realized of $9,538,700.

Gold coins brought some of the top prices among U.S. coins. Among them was a 1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition round gold $50, graded NGC MS-66, that realized $172,500.

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